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Mehta, Jal; Doctor, Joe – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
The past year has seen the emergence of a broad consensus on raising the standards for entering the teaching profession. The NEA, AFT, and Council of Chief State School Officers all have said they want higher entry standards. Such an exam would be modeled after other professions and is a potential game changer. If sufficiently rigorous, the exam…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Standards, Teacher Associations, Teacher Competency Testing
Shiveley, James; Misco, Thomas – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2010
Recently, schools of education throughout the country have struggled with how to infuse, teach, and assess dispositions in systematic ways within their teacher education programs. This necessary and important work has proved to be time-consuming challenging. The following article describes the four-step process that the authors are currently…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Schools of Education, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Characteristics
Wise, A. E., Ed.; Ehrenberg, P., Ed.; Leibbrand, J., Ed. – National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NJ3), 2010
"It's All About Student Learning Assessing Teacher Candidates' Ability to Impact P-12 Students", provides practical assistance for institutions designing or revising assessment systems or individual assessments for use by units or programs. The publication includes performance assessments currently used by teacher preparation institutions and…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Teacher Effectiveness, Student Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment
Berry, Barnett – Center for Teaching Quality, 2010
Over the last decade, policy and business leaders have come to know what parents have always known: teachers make the greatest difference to student achievement. With new statistical and analytical methods used by a wide range of researchers, evidence has been mounting that teacher quality can account for a large share of variance in student test…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Achievement Gains, Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement
Manzo, Kathleen Kennedy – Education Week, 2007
Aspiring middle school teachers in the United States take fewer math courses and are less knowledgeable in the subject than their counterparts in South Korea, Taiwan, and other countries. That gap in teacher preparation, coupled with curricular differences, could help explain achievement disparities between American students and their peers in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Skills, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
Zuzovsky, Ruth; Libman, Zipora – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2006
This article describes the evolvement of standards-based reform in teacher education, to highlight the debate concerning this reform and to present the critique leveled, first against the notion of teaching standards, and second against the validity of teacher tests. Part of this critique deals with some negative consequences of standards-based…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Education, Teacher Competency Testing
Carroll, James B.; Morrell, Patricia D. – Journal of Computing in Teacher Education, 2006
Technology skills and attitudes were compared between 51 school of education faculty members and 378 student teachers in teacher education programs in six Northwest liberal arts colleges. Few significant differences were found between the groups. In general, faculty members had higher levels of knowledge of a greater number of technology-based…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Knowledge Level, Educational Technology, Liberal Arts
Siegel, Donna F.; Hanson, Ralph A. – 1994
This presentation outlines, in operational terms, the components and products of a longitudinal evaluation model for teacher education programs, and discusses an approach to program evaluation that embodies activities within three taxonomical phases referred to as formative, summative, and confirmative evaluation. When applied to competency-based…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research
Sullivan, Michael E. – 1995
This report describes an alternative teacher certification program developed to address special education teacher shortages in rural West Virginia. For the past 9 years, one of every three educators in West Virginia assigned to special education has worked on some type of sub-standard license. The alternative certification program allows West…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Alternative Teacher Certification, Degree Requirements, Distance Education
Paige, Rod – US Department of Education, 2002
Under the 1998 reauthorization of Title II of the Higher Education Act, the secretary of education is required to issue annual reports to Congress on the state of teacher quality nationwide. "Meeting the Highly Qualified Teachers Challenge" is the inaugural report on this important issue. The 1998 reauthorization also established a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Federal Legislation, Teacher Certification